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We're going to talk about hearing from the Holy Spirit.

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John 10, 4 says,

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And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for

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they know his voice.

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And that's Jesus speaking about being our shepherd.

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And what's amazing about this verse is what the word voice means in the Greek.

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And it's the word plino, and it means something that appears suddenly.

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It's something we hear, or it's something we see, and it's outside of ourselves.

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And we're just kind of waiting to hear his voice, just like a sheep would with a shepherd

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in a field.

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And how many times do I go out when I'm just hearing my own voice, or other people's, or

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I'm not tuned in to my shepherd?

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And we have to realize we're just sheep.

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We are just sheep in the pasture, and we do have a great shepherd who will lay down his

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life for us.

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So the word plino means something that appears suddenly, and we have to be ready to respond

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and be ready to see it, hear it.

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So I had a situation where we were in Buena Vista, Colorado, and you'd think it would

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be Buena Vista, but it's Buena Vista.

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Yeah, it's spelled like Buena Vista in Spanish, but everybody there calls it Buena Vista.

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And if you say Buena Vista, they know you're a visitor.

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Yes.

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So we were in Buena Vista, and we were at a coffee shop, and we were all studying.

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We had our stuff out.

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It was Josh, Mary, you, and me.

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And this man was on a stage playing live music, and he was playing these songs that he wrote.

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And he said, I wrote these, and he was very kind of a fun guy.

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Kind of a cool dude.

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He was kind of like a cool dude.

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He was our age-ish.

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And this one song had terrible words.

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It was about like, it was like him being like a teenager, and he was thinking of something

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immoral to do with a girl, and he was rejecting sort of his own father in this song.

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So I started complaining about the song.

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I said, did you guys hear that song?

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It's so bad.

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And no one heard it.

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None of us were listening.

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You were the only one listening to it.

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I was listening.

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So I was thinking, oh, that's such a bad song.

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How is he writing about this?

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And nobody else heard it, and I heard the Lord say, are you just going to sit there

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and complain about the evil in the song?

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Why don't you go talk to him about it?

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And I was thinking, okay.

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So I stand up.

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When all you guys are sitting there, I said, I'm going to go talk to the man about the

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song.

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And everyone looked at me like, what?

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Like, what are you talking about?

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I said, the Lord told me I need to talk to him about a song, this one that I heard.

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So I go there.

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I go up to his stage.

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He had about 30 people listening to him.

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I go up, and I'm waiting by his stage.

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And he sees me, and he says, do you want to talk to me?

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And I said, yeah.

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He goes, is it bad?

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And I was thinking, oh, wow.

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I said, I don't know, because actually I wasn't quite sure what I was going to say yet.

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But I just went, well, I don't know what you're going to think about it, but we'll see.

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And so he was taking a break from his music.

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He walks down, and I said, well, thank you for all your talent.

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You're very talented, but I'm concerned about your song.

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I really don't think that you are representing youth very well by what you're singing.

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And I gave him two examples in the song, and I said, I think that we have a responsibility

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to bring about, I wasn't going to say like religious-y or church-y words.

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I said sort of a healthy purpose for these young people, because they're very in need

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of that.

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And I said, I bet you could change your songs and really be a representative for something

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that's really healthy for youth.

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And he's listening to me, and he said, well, would you get up on the stage and share that

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with the audience?

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And I was thinking, no.

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Oh, it was my first thought, no, I'm not going to do that.

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But then I thought, well, this is a door that God's opening.

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So I said, OK.

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I take the mic, and I see my family out there

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with saucers in their eyes, like, what is she doing?

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She's on the stage now with a microphone.

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And I started talking about that we're

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all created in God's image.

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I did sort of a different take, and I just

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started talking about how we're created in God's image.

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He has a great purpose for us.

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And I said, this man here has some talent,

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but he has a song I didn't like, because he

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told me to talk about it.

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So I did.

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I said, you know, I think we all need

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to be part of helping the youth and this current generation

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of young people.

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And I said, you know, I was a lost young person

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back in my day, and I needed people

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to speak healthy things over me.

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And so I said, I think this guy can do that, don't you?

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And everyone's like, and then, so this man said,

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so you've talked about God.

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He yells up from his seat, and he said, who's your God?

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And I said, well, my God is Jesus Christ.

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And I felt like there was a declaration even over this city

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when I said it, like I was, that God was setting me up to say,

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God, Jesus Christ, is Lord over this place.

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Yeah, it was pretty crazy.

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So this is who I married, you know?

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Well, this is not the only time that's happened.

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So we kind of know sometimes when the Holy Spirit channel is

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being caught on your frequency.

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Yeah, and a lot of times, again, it's

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the first step is a little risky and scary.

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And then a lot of times, God opens up doors for us.

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And we have to be willing to put ourselves aside

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and the things we would normally do.

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And I believe that God's saying it's time for God's people

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to stand up and come against evil in a loving way.

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So that's what I felt like his first assignment was,

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is don't just sit there and complain.

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Get up and say something that would be from me.

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So it's very practical, right?

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I mean, it's like we're just in a coffee shop,

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and then God speaks.

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And there was a number of years ago,

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we were struggling financially.

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We were very tight.

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We had seven kids.

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So we were always tight.

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I mean, I was missionary.

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Liz and I were missionaries.

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Then we were in the pastorate and all.

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And we lived out in the country, and we had a septic tank.

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And that means that we were not on city water.

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We're not on city systems.

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We had our own because we were on 6 and 1⁄2 acres.

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And our septic tank went out.

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It was put in in 1962.

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We were in this old, old house with nine people living there

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every day, so lots of water being used.

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And it broke.

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And as you can imagine, your septic tank's

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kind of important in your life.

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So we were at that place where we

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knew we didn't have the money.

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We got an estimate.

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And it was $5,100, $5,100 to fix it.

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So we took our wallets and our credit cards.

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I think we had one credit card.

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I don't even know if we had debit cards back then.

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But anyway, we put them all on a table.

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And we asked the whole family to come around.

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And we shared that we had a need.

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And we laid hands on our finances, a checkbook.

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I know a checkbook would have been in there.

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And we prayed three things.

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Yeah, what were they?

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We prayed that God would bless our finances.

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We prayed that the devil, we rebuked the devil

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from being involved because we were tithers.

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So we always tithed, but we were in a bind right then.

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And so we rebuked the enemy in Jesus' name.

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And we prayed, if there is something

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we needed to change about our finances, let us know.

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Because it can be all three of those things

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that we need to pray.

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That's right.

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And I remember that day going out on our road

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and walking and just crying out to God for the money we needed

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for the septic tank without having to borrow it

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and go into any kind of debt.

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So the next day, there was a knock at our door

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and a neighbor came by, a Christian neighbor up the road

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who said God spoke to her.

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She was on the Holy Spirit channel.

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and God spoke to her to write us a check and so she handed me an envelope with a

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check in it and I went oh my goodness because she didn't know nobody knew but

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our family that we were praying about our septic situation and you know I

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opened up and the check was for $5,100 and we were like whoa so she had the

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opportunity to be a part of the blessing to us through hearing from the Holy

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Spirit to bless us with what she heard from God so it was really exciting so

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you guys when you're on the Holy Spirit channel you're gonna hear God's voice

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and sometimes it's your prayer that enables someone else to hear God's voice

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because you have a need that you can't fill but they have what you need to fill

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that need and so they hear from God so we encourage you to be on the Holy

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Spirit channel that you be every day letting God guide you and lead you and

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speak to you we've talked about hearing God's voice we've talked about visions

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we've talked about dreams we've talked about the leading of the Holy Spirit so

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we hope that this theme of the Holy Spirit channel has been helpful to you

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it's kind of fun isn't it it's really fun yeah it's very exciting it's very

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exciting to know that your life isn't dependent totally on you but I like what

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Liz said I think that's really good that you could be tithing you could be

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giving 10% of the Lord you could be obedient in so many different areas but

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if you're also misusing your money like you're overspending you're constantly

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borrowing money or living kind of an exorbitant lifestyle don't expect God to

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come in and bail you out every time you're in a situation because you didn't

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use your own noggin and your own planning so this was a situation where

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we were just tight we were always tight and there was nothing I don't think

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there's anything more we could cut from what we cut and we were trying to save

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but anyway God came through in a mighty way yeah I would say just to wind this

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up if your story's not good yet go to the Holy Spirit channel because it's not

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over yet because he makes it good that's right amen all right so I hope this

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has been helpful to you God bless you guys we love you appreciate you be filled

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the Holy Spirit listen to the Holy Spirit channel and may the great

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adventure begin in your life in a fresh new way